I am putting together a new video editing computer for some things that are needed. I don’t really have a set budget, but it looks like I’m keeping it under the $2,000 mark. I was looking for something that handles Adobe CS3 (Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop) mainly. My list currently comes to $1,618.86 at NewEgg (though I will be shopping around for the best prices) Here’s what I’ve come up with:

So, would anybody change this? I am looking mainly for something to do videos ranging from 30 seconds to 15 minutes. Possibly a lot of effect work, maybe not. I don’t think I will need a dedicated scratch drive with the 8GB of RAM and staying with XP.

It will be mainly for the Adobe Suite but may occasionally have some games played on it. I think the video card will be fine but I might upgrade.

I may also add an additional 500GB drive. I really don’t like running in RAID 0 because of the possibility of one drive failing and all data on both drives being lost. Everything will also be backed up to DVD as soon as I capture the footage from Mini DV tape.

I will not be doing any overclocking on this. I don’t want to risk anything and I don’t want to mess with cooling. That’s why I’m getting a quad core and 4-8GB of RAM. Shaving off 1 minute of rendering time from a 30 minute render doesn’t really interest me.
If you’ve got some suggestions let me know!